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The first thing for me, I didn't recognize that my sleep was bad.
I didn't recognize that I was hypervigilant.
I didn't recognize that I was anxious or angry.
My family recognized that.
My friends did.
The first thing that came apparent to me was my joy.
I called it my joy because I didn't know what else
to call it.
The things that I liked to do, that I had put a lot of effort
and time into before weren't as important anymore.
You come back and you find yourself being very
compartmentalized, very work-oriented,
very school-oriented, very task-oriented.
You bury yourself in the things that you tell yourself you have
to do and not the things that you do for yourself
and so there's a certain amount of not taking care of yourself.
Part of the whole piece is taking caring of yourself too
and realizing that the things that you used to do,
they brought you joy and you used them for anxiety relief
and kind rezeroing yourself.
And if you don't do something then you just get so tight,
so anxious, so stressed out that it really lapses
over into those around you.
Your family, for instance, are the first ones
to take the hit for that.